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Boathouse Fees Bomb At City Plan

by Thomas Breen | Jul 27, 2021 2:46 pm | Comments (11)

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Long Wharf’s Canal Dock Boathouse, and new proposed fee schedule (below.)

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City planners pushed the pause button on a proposed new fee schedule for the Canal Dock Boathouse after criticizing the resident-discount prices — up to $4,500 for a wedding, $500 to store a rowing shell, $1,000 to rent the Lanson Room — as too high for New Haveners to bear.

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88 Years Later, Hummels Keep Smoking The Dogs

by Natalie Kainz | Jul 21, 2021 5:18 pm | Comments (8)

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Eric Hummel, Carmen Rodriguez, MaryEllen Hummel McMahon, Elicker, William Hummel Jr. and John Hummel.

In 1933, German immigrant brothers William and Robert Hummel purchased a bankrupt sausage factory on New Haven’s Congress Avenue for $1,000. Using a special blend of spices they had refined from their time as apprentice sausage makers in Germany, they established the Hummel Brothers sausage factory.

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Students Sought For Youth Rowing Program

by Staff | Jul 1, 2021 9:11 am | Comments (2)

The following release and these photos were sent in by a nonprofit looking for students to participate in summer and fall rowing programs on Long Wharf.

Crew Haven Corporation and Canal Dock Boathouse have partnered to create the Crew Haven Youth Rowing Program, a Sports Based Youth Development program that will bring competitive and recreational rowing, as well as academic after-school programming, to students in underrepresented communities in New Haven. The program, which launches this Fall, will be underwritten by Crew Haven Corporation (“CHC”) and operated by the Canal Dock Boathouse.

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“Yerba Bruja” Finds Roots In Elm City Earth

by Brian Slattery | Jun 9, 2021 8:46 am | Comments (0)

Maria and Ndemeh.

Making a painstaking cup of coffee the traditional way while recounting a harrowing story of flight from Ethiopia into an unknown future. Family photographs lovingly thumbed through, even while the speaker mourns a sense of childhood lost. And dancing that invokes ancestors and reaches back into the past to both face trauma and draw strength.

Curated and produced by Jasmin Agosto and featuring Haben Maria, Colleen Ndemeh, Paul Bryant Hudson, Zvlu, Yexandra Diaz, and Ch’Varda, Yerba Bruja is part ceremony, part storytelling, part music, spoken word, and dance performance, and all honesty and respect, as the participants ruminate on what it means to leave home, lose home, and reconnect and stay resilient, in ways large and small.

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Builders Tackle Supply Snags, Price Hikes

by Paul Bass | May 27, 2021 5:04 pm | Comments (4)

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Thanks to lucky timing, the lumber’s arriving at Tower Lane construction site, where Carlos Rivera (below) was hard at work this week.

The money’s still flowing to fuel New Haven’s building boom — but builders are scrambling to meet soaring lumber prices and find materials disappearing in a backed-up international supply chain.

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Today’s Special: Jesse’s Chicken Cutlet Scarpariello

by Lisa Reisman | Apr 22, 2021 11:03 am | Comments (1)

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Brazi’s head chef Jesse Melgar in the kitchen.

Over the last 28 years, Brazi’s Italian Restaurant, just down the walkway from Long Wharf Theatre, has played the role of host to such luminaries as Arthur Miller, Robert Redford, and Al Pacino, as well as Brian Dennehy and Amy Irving. 

So it’s perhaps no wonder that, on a recent morning, head chef Jesse Melgar was at the industrial stove, adding a touch of Chardonnay to a skillet popping with chicken cutlets, red bliss potatoes, and cherry peppers, before theatrically tossing its contents as a flame gushed upward.

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Ribbon Cut On Long Wharf Primary Care Hub

by Thomas Breen | Oct 20, 2020 6:31 pm | Comments (4)

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Cornell Schott CEO Michael Taylor, YNHH CEO Marna Borgstrom, YNHH VP Cynthia Sparer, and Yale School of Medicine Dean Nancy Brown at Tuesday’s ribbon cutting.

The new primary care hub at 150 Sargent Dr.

Top administrators and clinicians from Yale New Haven Hospital, Fair Haven Community Health Care, and Cornell Scott Hill Health Center celebrated Monday the fruits of a years-in-the-making local healthcare partnership: The completion of a new ​“one-stop shop” primary care hub at 150 Sargent Dr. on Long Wharf.

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What Pandemic? Ground Broken On Hotel

by Thomas Breen | Sep 30, 2020 1:05 pm | Comments (15)

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Site of $50M hotel. Below: Developers, bankers prepare to toss dirt.

Bruce Redman Becker broke ground Wednesday on a roughly $50 million bet: That a new 165-room hotel at the iconic and long-vacant Pirelli Building will be able to attract lodgers, restaurant goers, and business visitors — even as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ravage the hospitality industry.

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